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Definition of Brim over
1. Verb. Flow or run over (a limit or brim).
Entails: Course, Feed, Flow, Run
Generic synonyms: Run Out, Spill
Specialized synonyms: Geyser
Derivative terms: Overflow, Overflow, Overrun
Definition of Brim over
1. Verb. to overflow over the brim (of a saucepan etc.) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Brim Over
Literary usage of Brim over
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Our Viceregal Life in India: Selections from My Journal, 1884-1888 by Herriot Georgina Dufferin et Ava (1890)
"... for they brim over occasionally. What a mysterious, changeable, incomprehensible,
and disappointing thing is climate! Circumstances were too strong for ..."
2. Surgery, Gynecology & Obstetrics by The American College of Surgeons, Franklin H. Martin Memorial Foundation (1910)
"... was found to be bound by many adhesions to the pelvic brim over the ureter
region. The appendix was doubled on itself and considerably inflamed. ..."
3. Thesaurus of English words and phrases by Peter Mark Roget (1883)
"V. super-, over-abound ; know no bounds, swarm ; meet one at every turn ; creep -,
bristle- with ; overflow ; run -, flow -, well -, brim- over; run riot; ..."
4. Gynæcology for students & practitioners by Thomas Watts Eden (1920)
"The peritoneum covering the floor of the anterior compartment may be traced
transversely from the pelvic brim over the lateral part of the pelvic wall to ..."
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